Former director of the National Health Service (SNS) Nelson Rodríguez Monegro said on Tuesday, 30 July 2019 that in the Dominican Republic there is “a culture of fraud.” He made the remarks referring to an investigative report published in Hoy by journalist Altagracia Ortiz on physicians that forge and plagiarize documents to be admitted to subspecialty residences. He said that “medical reviews” were created to publish the articles, and space in the publication is sold to physicians for RD$15,000 to RD$20,000 each so that these can comply with the requirement of being published.
Rodríguez Monegro added when being interviewed for “La Receta Médica” Z101 radio talk show that people in the same Dominican Medical Guild (CMD) were accomplices in the fraudulent practice. He said when he was the coordinator of the National Council of Medical Residences, the practice was annulled when the worth of the research papers was reduced to one point. He mentioned in some cases the research is authentic, but the name of a doctor who did not participate is added. “There is an institutional fraud process,” he said.
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31 August 2019